I don’t think it’s always bad and sometimes just poking fun, like “haha silly orcs how dare you think you could beat me”, but when someone makes it their whole roleplay gimmick or says stuff like that all the time, it’s for sure a red flag. Like humans hating undead is a strongly established thing, so being an anti-undead zealot fits the setting. But these people are the equivalent of Elder Scrolls fans calling Argonians and Khajit “farm tools” because they’re enslaved by the Dunmer in-game. In this case, all their terms were similar to stuff like “wireback” being used for AI/robots by Star Wars people not that long ago.
These people aren’t roleplaying, it’s always about gnomes, and while I don’t always think they’re doing anything except participating in a fairly common trope that’s existed in WoW communities for probably a couple decades it’s also regularly used as code for their actual prejudice against Jewish people.
And they’re oddly enough always people who think Israel is the heckin’ most wholesome country ever and if you dare think they can do any wrong, you’re antisemitic!
I did have one guy last week try to tell me that Epstein not only wasn’t a Mossad agent but actually supported Palestine but that’s seemingly an aberration nowadays
Zionism is an inherently antisemitic ideology that requires believing that Jewish people are inherently different and can’t integrate into other societies
And it’s hard to call them out because so much of it is already in the text, they can always claim they’re just playing along. I remember a couple of Blood Elf /jokes:
“We’re allies with the Tauren? Fantastic! We’ll be having steak twice a week.”
“So I was in the Undercity the other day and this Forsaken woman asks me if I want a facial. I said, ‘You don’t have a lower jaw, and you want to give me a facial?’ HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
As someone whose favourite Elder Scrolls race is Khajit… I have gotten incredibly, inexplicably, red-in-face angry when a Khajit is called a farm tool more times than I’d like to admit.
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I don’t think it’s always bad and sometimes just poking fun, like “haha silly orcs how dare you think you could beat me”, but when someone makes it their whole roleplay gimmick or says stuff like that all the time, it’s for sure a red flag. Like humans hating undead is a strongly established thing, so being an anti-undead zealot fits the setting. But these people are the equivalent of Elder Scrolls fans calling Argonians and Khajit “farm tools” because they’re enslaved by the Dunmer in-game. In this case, all their terms were similar to stuff like “wireback” being used for AI/robots by Star Wars people not that long ago.
These people aren’t roleplaying, it’s always about gnomes, and while I don’t always think they’re doing anything except participating in a fairly common trope that’s existed in WoW communities for probably a couple decades it’s also regularly used as code for their actual prejudice against Jewish people.
And they’re oddly enough always people who think Israel is the heckin’ most wholesome country ever and if you dare think they can do any wrong, you’re antisemitic!
This group is becoming smaller and smaller. Chuds generally don’t like Israel anymore.
I did have one guy last week try to tell me that Epstein not only wasn’t a Mossad agent but actually supported Palestine but that’s seemingly an aberration nowadays
Zionism is an inherently antisemitic ideology that requires believing that Jewish people are inherently different and can’t integrate into other societies
And it’s hard to call them out because so much of it is already in the text, they can always claim they’re just playing along. I remember a couple of Blood Elf /jokes:
“We’re allies with the Tauren? Fantastic! We’ll be having steak twice a week.”
“So I was in the Undercity the other day and this Forsaken woman asks me if I want a facial. I said, ‘You don’t have a lower jaw, and you want to give me a facial?’ HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
As someone whose favourite Elder Scrolls race is Khajit… I have gotten incredibly, inexplicably, red-in-face angry when a Khajit is called a farm tool more times than I’d like to admit.
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a bear. Please report any suspawcious behaviour.